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Child Development - a study in Expectations
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Child Development - a study in Expectations Abstract Can a study of only two people give the same results as Hess's study of 125 mothers in 1980? By taking two participants and recreating the same experiment, would the results be the same? The same questions were asked in the same manner but reproduced slightly different results. This actually showed a lowering of expectations of aspirations in Child Development. This could have been due to using a smaller sample. It could also have been due to a general relaxation about the expectations of goals in Child Development. This change in attitude may have been due to the type of participant chosen. One is a father of three, the other an 18 year old female student. Similar types of participants may well have shown parallel results in 1980. Introduction Parental expectation in Child Development can be dependant on cultural beliefs. In societies such as Kahalapur...
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